Job Search

I have never really liked looking for a job. It is time consuming, frustrating and it means I have to rewrite my resume. However, since I only have 2 months left in my contract, it is that time again. Job Search Time.

This task is made more difficult by the fact that I have not really decided what type of job I really want. Part of me would love a longer term opportunity here - if not in Rwanda, at least in Africa. The other part of me is thinking that it would be nice to be based in Canada with an NGO. So this means I am splitting my efforts in two different directions. The other thing that makes it frustrating is the job requirements for most positions. If they don't want someone with a master's degree (most of which require three years of experience before you can apply) they need someone with 5 years experience. I, of course, have neither of these and so don't qualify for most of the positions open at the moment. So the search continues...

Time is running!

I am having a difficult time believing that it is January 15th. Time has been flying so quickly! Before Christmas it felt like I still had so much time here in Rwanda - time to figure out the problems with my position here, time to find a job for when I am finished, time to spend with friends here and to explore this great country.

Now it feels like I have no time! Two months and I will be on my way home. I am not going to dwell on this - that is surest way to waste time, but I will indulge a little today. I feel like there is still so much to be done and learned here. I have only been to work two days since I have been back from Zambia and this is increasingly frustrating since there is still lots of work to do. I need to sit with my boss and figure out what is going on in his head because he tells me day after day that I don't need to come into work. I am supposed to go to Nyamata tomorrow, but I half expect him to call me this evening and put it off again.

This was supposed to be a reflective posting about my time here so far, but now it has degenerated into a bit of a rant about my job. So I will stop here.

As promised

More Photos!!

A crocodile dozing in the sun on a small island in the zambezi river.

Hippos watching us as we canoe past on the Zambezi



Standing on the edge of the world on Livingstone Island, right at the top of Victoria Falls



Miriam, fellow WV intern and travling parnter gracefully getting up on our elephant:)



He got thristy! Riding the elephant was great fun, even if we did do it in a thunder storm!

Zambia Pictures

So here are some pictures of my adventures in Zambia! Yahoo!

Miriam, fellow WV intern and I at Victoria Falls

Pretty rainbow in the falls

My Dad's old house in Livingstone - I think!!

That is right - I am riding an elephant!! In a thunderstorm! So much fun!

Rapelling down a gorge near the falls - a little scary at first but then a great time:)

More pictures will come later - running out of internet time! Now I am home in Kigali and am happy to be 'home.'